Trial reportLupus science & medicine2023
Anifrolumab in lupus nephritis: results from second-year extension of a randomised phase II trial.
Trial report in Lupus science & medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02547922 (A Multicentre, Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 2 Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Anifrolumab in Adult Subjects With Active Proliferative Lupus Nephritis), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Multicentre, Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 2 Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Anifrolumab in Adult Subjects With Active Proliferative Lupus Nephritis
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and safety of biologics, multitarget therapy, and standard therapy for lupus nephritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Renal failure · 2024Pooled it
- Anifrolumab Dose Regimen Selection for a Phase 3 Trial in Lupus Nephritis.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2026Trial
- Trial
- Trial
- Mechanism-informed combination therapy and dynamic risk stratification in lupus nephritis: toward durable renal protection.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Review
- Advances in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: Biologicals, small-molecular agents, and cell-depleting therapies coming to the clinic.Journal of internal medicine · 2026Review
- Disease modification in lupus nephritis: towards a pathophysiology-based treatment paradigm.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2026Review
- Advances and unmet needs in the management of proliferative lupus nephritis: evidence, guidelines, and emerging therapies.Kidney research and clinical practice · 2026Article
- Article
- The Evolution of Lupus Nephritis Therapy from the 1960s to the Present.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Targeting STAT3 in systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis: mechanisms, therapeutic advances, and structure-informed perspectives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Advances of Anti-Inflammatory Biologics in Immune-Mediated Glomerulonephritis: A Narrative Review.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- CD74-Targeting Antibody-Drug Conjugate Enhances Immunosuppression of Glucocorticoid in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Ophthalmological Safety Considerations of Emerging and Conventional Therapeutic Agents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Real-World Use of Anifrolumab for Articular Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Monocentric Case Series and Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
- Taming renal inflammation: signaling pathways and therapeutic advances in lupus nephritis.BMC nephrology · 2025Review
- Post-marketing safety signals of anifrolumab in systemic lupus erythematosus: a pharmacovigilance study based on FAERS.BMC rheumatology · 2025Article
- An Integrative Mechanistic Model of Type 1 IFN-Mediated Inflammation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology · 2025Article
- Adjunctive anifrolumab for recalcitrant discoid lupus erythematosus in the setting of systemic lupus erythematosus: A case report.JAAD case reports · 2025Article
- Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.Nature communications · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo characterise the safety and efficacy of anifrolumab in active lupus nephritis (LN) through year 2 of the phase II randomised, double-blind Treatment of Uncontrolled Lupus via the Interferon Pathway (TULIP)-LN trial (NCT02547922) of 2 anifrolumab dosing regimens versus placebo.
methodsPatients received intravenous anifrolumab 900 mg for the first 3 doses followed by 300 mg anifrolumab (intensified regimen (IR)), 300 mg anifrolumab (basic regimen (BR)) or placebo every 4 weeks throughout. To continue into Year 2, patients must have achieved at least partial renal response and a glucocorticoid tapering target.
resultsOf 147 randomised patients, 101 completed Year 1 study treatment; of these, 75 (74%) continued into Year 2 (anifrolumab IR: n=29, BR: n=23 and placebo: n=23). During Year 2, 72% of patients reported ≥1 adverse event (AE); serious AEs were reported in 6.9%, 8.7% and 8.7% of patients (anifrolumab IR, BR and placebo, respectively); 3 patients discontinued treatment due to an AE (anifrolumab IR: n=2 and placebo: n=1) and herpes zoster was reported in 2 patients (anifrolumab IR: n=1 and BR: n=1). The study was ongoing at the start of the pandemic, but no COVID-19 cases were reported. Of the 145 patients receiving treatment, more patients on the IR attained complete renal response at Week 104 compared with those on BR or placebo (27.3% vs 18.6% and 17.8%) and simultaneously achieved sustained glucocorticoid tapering (IR: 25.0%; BR: 18.6% and placebo: 17.8%). The improvements in estimated glomerular filtration rate were numerically larger in both anifrolumab groups versus placebo.
conclusionsThe safety and tolerability profile through Year 2 of TULIP-LN was generally consistent with Year 1, with promising efficacy results for the anifrolumab IR regimen. Collectively, the results support further investigation of an anifrolumab intensified dosing regimen in larger populations of patients with active proliferative LN. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02547922.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.